- From: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 18:53:54 +0000
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>, "public-i18n-bidi@w3.org" <public-i18n-bidi@w3.org>, "'Aharon (Vladimir) Lanin'" <aharon@google.com>
[fantasai:] > But I think this isn't quite what we want: it doesn't address the base > directionality of the marker. If the marker is associated with the list, > not the list item, then its base directionality also needs to be taken > from the list, and not the list item. Otherwise any leading/trailing > punctuation may wind up in the wrong order. So it isn't a question of the > marker's "side" so much as its "direction". In which case maybe the > property should be 'marker-direction: match-self | match-parent'. > Fwiw match-self makes no sense to me; if the thing has no direction and needs to get it from somewhere else it seems odd to ask it to 'match itself'. Why is match-item/match-list bad? These are the very terms you use to explain this in your paragraph. I'm not sure being more abstract is helpful in this case.
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